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bemuses

bemuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemuse.

Meaning of bemuse

Verb

bemuse (third-person singular simple present bemuses, present participle bemusing, simple past and past participle bemused)

  1. (transitive) To confuse or bewilder.
    • [With] fairy tales bemused the shepherd lies.1771, James Foot, Penseroso
  2. (proscribed, sometimes, transitive) To be amused, especially sardonically.
  3. (archaic, humorous) To devote to the Muses.
    • When those incorrigible things, Poets, are once irrecoverably Be-mus'd1705, Alexander Pope, Letters
  4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To make drunk; to intoxicate.
    • a parson much be-mus'd in beer1735, Alexander Pope, Satires of Dr. Donne versified

Questions about bemuses

What is bemuses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bemuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bemuse.

Words near bemuses in the dictionary

  1. bemuse
  2. bemused
  3. bemusedly
  4. bemusement
  5. bemusements
  6. bemuses
  7. bemusing
  8. bemusingly
  9. bemuslined
  10. bemustached
  11. bemuzzle

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